Thursday, 10 October 2013

'Go to' Guy?

Matthew Guy, the Victorian state government Minister for Planning has floated a new and controversial 'Melbourne Plan' which radically changes the proposed urban boundaries of greater Melbourne, de-regulates hi-rise developments in current 'heritage' areas and, envisages development of numerous regional towns as new industrial and population centres. This follows their 2010 tearing-up of a decades old master urban development plan originally devised by a previous Liberal government and, religiously adhered to by all succeeding administrations regardless of political bent.

The immediate reaction of planning academics has been couched in terms like fraudulent, hoax, developer-driven, irrelevant, vacuous etc. so, how it fares being implemented in the coming state election year is conjectural at best.



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